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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Eric Draper
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Allan Ahlberg

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Louisa May Alcott

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lloyd Alexander

Debbie Allen

Chris Van Allsburg

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Julia Alvarez

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
Lavere Anderson

LaVere Anderson
Giles Andreae

Claudia Dulak
William L. Andrews

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Catherine Anholt

Catherine and Laurence Anholt
Laurence Anholt

Catherine and Laurence Anholt
Anonymous

Katherine Applegate

Heli12
Philip Ardagh

Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

© 1999 Bonnie Bryant
John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Enid Bagnold

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert D. Ballard

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/05ballard/welcome.html
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
James M. Barrie

T. A. Barron

Graeme Base

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Robert Bateman

K.P. Bath

Marion Dane Bauer

mariondanebauer.com
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Alan Bean

Photo created by NASA
George Beard

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Michael Berenstain

James Berry

This image of James Berry, hangman and executioner, is scanned from the author's work MY EXPERIENCES AS AN EXECUTIONER (1892).
Quentin Blake

Alberto Blanco

Dana Blanco Revah
Judy Blume

Deborah Blumenthal

Ray Bradbury

Sarah Bradford

Anne Bradstreet

Illustration from An Account of Anne Bradstreet The Puritan Poetess and Kindred Topics by Col. Luther Caldwell, 1898
Jan Brett

Raymond Briggs

Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Marc Brown

Joseph Bruchac

by Krystina Kelley
Laurent De Brunhoff

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Ashley Bryan

Library of Congress
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Thomas Bulfinch

John Bunyan

Robert Burleigh

Credit: Mark Burleigh
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Leo Buscaglia

MDCarchives
Francelia Butler

Francelia Butler, Halloween 1990, Mansfield Hollow, Conn.
Betsy Cromer Byars

Georgia Byng

Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Eric Carle

Nancy Carlson

Courtesy of Nancy Carlson
Lewis Carroll

Ben Carson

Clayborne Carson

Courtesy of Clayborne Carson
Alden R. Carter

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Veronica Chambers

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Lucille Clifton

Vicki Cobb

Eleanor Coerr

Bruce Cole

Bruce Cole at Ambassador Baptist Christian School, Washington D.C., 2007. Detail from White House photo by David Bohrer.
Joanna Cole

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Christopher Columbus

Columbus, After a Portrait by Herrer ~ From "History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
Project Gutenberg
Padraic Colum

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienZizou Corder

Louisa Young and Isabel Adomakoh Young
Bill Cosby

U.S. Navy photo by Mr. Scott King (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Stephen Cosgrove

Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
Joy Cowley

Sharon Creech

Chris Crowe

Brigham Young University
Chris Crutcher

Photo courtesy of Chris Crutcher.
e.e. cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Jamie Lee Curtis

41st Annual Emmy Awards, photo by Alan Light
Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Paula Danziger

Paula Danziger at Hammick's Bookshop (Harrow UK)
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Amanda Davis

Ossie Davis

Carmen Agra Deedy

Library of Congress
Tomie dePaola

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
RH Disney

Gustave Dore

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Arthur Dorros

Frederick Douglass

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Sharon Draper

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr)
John R. Erickson

Eleanor Estes

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Cathryn Falwell

Nancy Farmer

Photo by Harold Farmer, provided by publisher
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Matthew Van Fleet

Brian Stanton
Paul Fleischman

Copyright © 2006 by Dana Fleischman
Ian Fleming

Florian

Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Mem Fox

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
John Hope Franklin

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Catherine Friend

Courtesy of Author, Catherine Friend
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Wanda Gag

Wanda Gag holding artist's palette, 1916-1917.
Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Mahatma Gandhi

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jack Gantos

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Mordicai Gerstein

By me.(©Pitcherbooks at LT.com)
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
William Gibson

Nikki Giovanni

Morris Gleitzman

Paul Goble

Photo by user Temp07 / Wikimedia Commons
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Goodall

Photo by Joshua Wickerham / Flickr.
Diane Goode

Peter Goode
Mother Goose

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828)
Self portrait, etching
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Nikki Grimes

Courtesy of Nikki Grimes
Brothers Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Wilhelm Grimm

State22
Camilla Gryski

Ursula Le Guin

Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Photo by Kyle Kesselring, Flickr
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Larry Hama

Larry Hama (center) with Ron Hogan and Chris Claremont (right)
at the Science Fiction Writers of America annual reception in New York City, 2006
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganJUDITH. HANN

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Geraldine Harris

Geraldine Harris Pinch
Zahi Hawass

Photo taken by Hajor, Mexico City, Aug 2003.
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Brooks Haxton

Robert A. Heinlein

Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
B. G. Hennessy

O.Henry

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Himmelman

E. D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Michael Hoeye

Mary Hoffman

© Jess Barber 2004
Kristi Holl

http://www.kristiholl.com/images/image002.jpg
Jennifer Holm

Library of Congress
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Dorothy Hoobler

Courtesy of Hahchette Book Group
bell hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Vit Horejs

Polly Horvath

John Howe

Stefan Servos (2003). Photo is of illustrator John Howe, not Rev. John Howe.
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Carleen Maley Hutchins

William McQuoid
Paul Jackson

Harriet A. Jacobs

wikipedia
Brian Jacques

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Betsy James

Susan Jeffers

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Steve Jenkins

Peter Jennings

Cropped from a photo of Jennings interviewing Eric Bost, Undersecretary of Agriculture (2002).
Angela Johnson

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr) ~ Photo by Larry O. Gay
Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
James Weldon Johnson

Photo taken circa 1920s
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Michael Wynn Jones

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Melissa Kantor

Courtesy of the author
Carolyn Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Peg Kehret

Vicki Taylor
Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Martin Luther King

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Dick King-Smith

Jeff Kinney

Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

http://www.kinsey-warnock.com/images/nat&skye.jpg
Rudyard Kipling

Anna Kirwan

Jim Kjelgaard

home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/kjelgaard.htm
Annette Curtis Klause

Suzy Kline

Michelle Knudsen

MaryAnn F. Kohl

MaryAnn F. Kohl, Bright Ring Publishing, "Bright Ideas for Learning", www.brightring.com
Gordon Korman

Courtesy of Sharon Aperto, photographer, taken in Valley Cottage, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2006 (all rights reserved)
Erich Kastner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Jerome Lawrence

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
James Legge

Engraving from the portrait by J.E. Christie.
Annie Leibovitz

Robert Scoble
Lois Gladys Leppard

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Frane Lessac

Julius Lester

Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Sonia Levitin

Photo by Rose Eichenbaum
C. S. Lewis

J. Patrick Lewis

Abraham Lincoln

Jean Little

Penelope Lively

John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Jonathan London

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
John Long

Maud Hart Lovelace

Minnesota Historical Society
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Mike Lupica

Patricia Maclachlan

Library of Congress
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Adeline Yen Mah

Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Albert Marrin

Albert Marrin (right) at the 2008 National Humanities Medal award ceremony. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
James Marshall

James Martin

Photo of Fr. James Martin SJ
Photo Credit: Tatyana Borodina
Judith Martin

Library of Congress
Rafe Martin

Jean Marzollo

Wendy Mass

Carol Matas

Ruth Bonneville
Mercer Mayer

Courtesy of Mercer Mayer
Willie Mays

Willie Mays with arm around shoulders of Roy Campanella/photo by William C. Greene: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-112029)
Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Geraldine McCaughrean

Frank McCourt

Robert McCrum

Megan McDonald

Library of Congress
McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Claude McKay

Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-105919)
Rand McNally

Tim McNeese

Tim McNeese
Angela Shelf Medearis

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Paul F. Burns, V
August Meier

Rigoberta Menchu

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Carolyn Meyer

www.readcarolyn.com
Jonathan Miller

MDCarchives
A.A. Milne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anne Miranda

taken by Saturnino Miranda
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Mary Morgan

Ben Marra
Michael Morpurgo

Georges Seguin
Marissa Moss

Farley Mowat

Walter Dean Myers

Donna Jo Napoli

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Lennart Nilsson

Vogler
Garth Nix

Laura Numeroff

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Amarin
Bill Nye

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Naomi Shihab Nye

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Amarin
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barbara O'Connor

Photo by Grady O'Connor
Scott O'Dell

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Shaquille O'Neal

Photo by Flickr User David Washington, DC
Eugene O'Neill

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Wendy Orr

George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Mary Pope Osborne

Tom Marcello, 1977
Will And Ma Osborne

Authors Mary Pope Osborne and her husband Will Osborne read aloud to an ethusiastic crowd of young readers from her book, "American Tall Tales," Monday, April 9, 2007, during the 2007 White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn.
(whitehouse.gov)
Charles Panati

Rosa Parks

Todd Parr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

http://www.dorothyhinshawpatent.com/images/photo_pups.jpg
Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Gudrun Pausewang

Photo by user Zefram / Wikimedia Commons
Richard Peck

Dave Pelzer

Julie Anne Peters

Courtesy of the author
Ann Petry

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Marcus Pfister

Jan Pienkowski

Tamora Pierce

Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Patricia Polacco

http://www.patriciapolacco.com/pr/polacco_3.jpg
Richard Powell

Courtesy of BookThink
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Jack Prelutsky

Library of Congress
Francine Prose

Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Mary Quattlebaum

Credit: Christopher David
Delia Ray

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Photo by Larry O. Gay) ~ Flickr
H. A. Rey

portrait of H.A.Rey in early seventies reading to children at Cambridge Adult Education Center by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net
Sally Ride

nix.ksc.nasa.gov
Fred Rogers

White House Photo by Susan Sterner
Peter Roop

Phyllis Root

Photo by Kelly Povo
Liz Rosenberg

GEOFF GOULD
Michael Rosen

Photo credit: JK the Unwise (Wikipedia user)
Michael Elsohn Ross

Glen Rounds

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J.K. Rowling

Laurie Rozakis

Stephan G. Kravitz
Sharman Apt Russell

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Alex Sanchez

Kevin Kerdash
Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
R. Schami

Photo by Rudolf Bauer / Wikimedia Commons
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Inc. Discovery Communications

Discovery Channel Headquarters, Silver Spring, October 2005, photo by John (
dcJohn on Flickr)
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Jon Scieszka

Maurice Sendak

Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtNtozake Shange

Photo by Frank Stewart
David Shannon

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Shel Silverstein

Nina Simonds

Richard Howard
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
National Geographic Kids

Martha Southgate

denton@speakeasy.net
Elizabeth George Speare

Diane Stanley

MDCarchives
Rudolf Steiner

Gertrude Stein

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Melissa Stewart

Courtesy of Melissa Stewart
R.l. Stine

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Todd Strasser

Todd Strasser, pen name Morton Rhue (photo credit: Effi Schweizer, March 9, 2006)
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
George E. Stuart

George E. Stuart at the site of Palenque
Photo by Melinda Y. Stuart
Gwenyth Swain

Photo by Cheryl Walsh Bellville
John Szarkowski

Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Mark Teague

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Mike Thaler

mikethaler.com
Dylan Thomas

Craig Thompson

By Greg Preston
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
New York Times Company

Robert Scoble
J.R.R. Tolkien

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Megan Whalen Turner

R.E.S.
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Iyanla Vanzant

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Joan D. Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jill Paton Walsh

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
Rosemary Wells

Library of Congress
Gloria Whelan

gloriawhelan.com
E. B. White

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
John Greenleaf Whittier

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Richard Wilbur

Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Nancy Willard

2004 Eric Lindbloom
Mo Willems

David Shankbone, September 2007
Juan Williams

Stanley Tookie Williams

Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Henry Winkler

Henry Winkler (Actor) ~ Photo by Alan Light, 1990
(Cropped/Wikimedia Commons/Flickr)
Tobias Wolff

Douglas Wood

Courtesy of Douglas Wood
Earl Woods

K. Kassens
Jacqueline Woodson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Gene Luen Yang

Library of Congress
Laurence Yep

Ting-xing Ye

William Bell
Jane Yolen

N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York

Majonaise
Paul Zindel

Charlotte Zolotow

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